Three of the four feature a stylized fern alongside other images including ... flag the whole flag changing thing and move on,” commentator Karl Puschmann wrote in the New Zealand Herald ...

New Zealand, earlier this month. Picture: Hannah Peters / Getty Images Within an hour of the referendum result, 61 flags by Kyle Lockwood, who designed the silver fern alternative, were on sale on ...

The green of the land and sea. The Southern Cross on the blue background pays homage to the 1902 New Zealand flag, but the Māori design element replaces the Union Jack.'Picture: New Zealand ...

In pictures: Weird and wonderful ... The preliminary winner and runner-up flags were both designed by architect Kyle Lockwood, and feature New Zealand icons the silver fern and the Southern ...

It reignited long-running debates over artistic expression, national symbols and the country’s colonial history.

New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) In March next year, New Zealanders will be asked whether they want to replace their current flag with a new one. The Silver Fern (black ...

The flag of New Zealand might be replaced after a referendum Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images A proposed design for the New Zealand flag has raised concerns because of its purported likeness to the ...

He also complained that New Zealand's flag looks too much like Australia ... forever emblazoned with images of what are now vintage wagons from the era of the birth of the railways.

The current New Zealand flag flies on top of the Wellington Town Hall on Oct. 12, 2015, in Wellington, New Zealand. Getty Images/Hagen Hopkins New Zealand started voting Friday to select a ...

The alternative flag to the current New Zealand flag flutters outside a hotel in Wellington. Mr Key, wearing the alternative silver fern design on his lapel, said he wouldn’t take the result ...